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When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?
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When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.
- Forget
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What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.
- Dance
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They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.
- Happy
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The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage.
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That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.
- Feeling
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Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
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It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
- Me
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I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
- Country
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I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.
- Day
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And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.
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